About this project

The Problem: Female Gaming and Indie Titles are growing fields with often inadequate coverage. Even where coverage exists, gamers must scour half a dozen sites to get an accurate view of the state of games.

More indie games, girl gaming, and gaming comics coverage...and a chance to change the industry together by giving YOU, the gamer, a voice. AND a centralized location to get it all.

With your support we can build a community focused on quality gaming journalism covering the topics that gamers care about. At UGDB we want to know what you think and how you think and what games need the coverage and support that's hard to find in gaming journalism today.

We're focused on quality and covering the "It's time to take control of the gaming industry" by letting you opinions be heard. Let UGDB be that vehicle for you!

Below is our breakdown of the budget for the Kickstarter money, but our goal is to double our coverage of indie games and female perspectives in gaming, find what players want to hear about, and deliver regular, engaging journalism. Community funding will make that goal possible.

We'll also be committing to release two new functions to the site to assist with finding new games to play, which is funded by Ryan and Aaron.

A Typical UGDB Meeting

The first of these is called "Battle Royale," a 1v1 game versus game comparison where the user selects which game they think is better. This battle is used to help build our top 200 game list, which is ever changing and evolving. Additionally this information will be used for our second new site function simply called the "Game Suggestion Engine."

The Game suggestion engine will list out several games based on an algorithm of Battle Royale, Ratings, Reviews, Game Collection, and other data on the site. When put together we'll show a list of games that we think could be interesting for you to look into further.

On top of these new features we will also we adding integration with Steam, Xbox Live, and Playstation Network. These integrations will allow you to track all of your
gaming achievements, collections, and ratings in one place.

To sum up: More coverage of what you care about in video games, and more features to help you find new games to play.

At UGDB we've been running hard and pushing the envelope for the last two years. We want to take the next step and push our series' of content even further.

Alone we can and have done a lot, but with your support and help we'll be able to push the gaming industry to the next level, with top notch journalism.

Currently UGDB is funded by Aaron Davis and Ryan McCay and that commitment is continuing into 2016. In 2015 Aaron and Ryan together contributed $25,000 of their personal funds to provide everyone with series' such as George's Corner and Indie Spotlight among other great content series' by George, Derek, Chris, Sunday, and Joanna.

At Ultimate Game Database we love games and we are passionate about changing the industry.
Whether we’re sulking in the corner from another death in Dark Souls or bragging about the new rare Pokemon we captured in Pokemon X, our life is gaming.

So, what’s the point of this UGDB? To provide gamers with the information needed to buy games that meet and exceed their expectations. Have you ever bought a game and found yourself 10 hours in and finished playing? Or stuck in a glitch? Or so bored you want to suffocate a murloc?

The mission of UGDB.com is to stop horrible gaming experiences from ever happening. Period. Now it’s up to you. Make a difference for fellow gamers. Rate and review some games and tell everyone about your gaming experience, then join us in finding new world worth exploring.

We want to be completely transparent, so here's the breakdown of what the money will be used for when we reach our goal (on a yearly basis). This is in addition to our current budget, so this is all additional content. Feel free to ask questions!

Kickstarter Fees (5%) - $1,000.05

Transaction fees (3-5%) - $1000.05

George's Corner Season 2 - $4,800

Server/Hosting Expenses (4 servers in the Azure Cloud, we cover 2 of them ourselves) - $1,800

Journalists (Joanna, Chris, Derek, Sunday, and another to be hired) - $9,360

Any excess in funding will go towards more comics in the second season of George's Corner, additional coverage in our Wednesday Indie Pick and Indie Spotlight Series', and additional coverage. Otherwise, we'll note it here if it goes to any other areas.

With this campaign we're giving everyone an opportunity to talk to us and we're holding regular events throughout the campaign. Stop by and ask us some questions!

Risks and challenges

Print of rewards: Some of our rewards are specifically tied to a printer. Should they encounter any issues with our mass order, then this could delay our delivery.

Mail: Yup. USPS sometimes loses things. If they do or there's a delay we'll make it right!

Search for new Journalists: Should we encounter any issues finding a qualified journalist to cover our additional areas we could see a delay in that coverage. However, the good news is that once we find someone the coverage will begin from that point on.

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